Perhaps it’s just because I was an uber-geek in high school and spent more time at home watching TV than I did, say, having an actual life, but I never missed an episode of Steven Spielberg’s “Amazing Stories.”
It was Spielberg’s version of the anthology shows he grew up with, like “The Twilight Zone” and “The Outer Limits,” and although he mostly just lent his name to the series and served as executive producers, the star power he accumulated for the various episodes is undeniable. Check out the names who appear in the first season alone: Amy Irving, Drew Barrymore, Bronson Pinchot, Kevin Costner, Keifer Sutherland, Anthony LaPaglia, Gregory Hines, Milton Berle, Sid Caesar, Mark Hamill, Charlie Sheen, Andrew McCarthy, Forest Whitaker, Sam Waterson, John Lithgow, Harvey Keitel…oh, it goes on and on and on.
Season 1 of the show will be released on DVD by Universal on July 18th. Here’s hoping it’s sufficiently successful as to result in Season 2 coming out as well, as that’s when Tim Burton’s classic “Family Dog” episode appeared, as well as “Go to the Head of the Class,” starring Christopher Lloyd. (The pair were packaged together in a VHS episode some years ago.)
